Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I verified it: my .xsession-errors stays empty :-(. > Under gdm/Gnome your errors go to .gnome-errors and/or .gnomerc-errors (couldn't figure out when which file is used ...) instead of .xsession-errors.
You should set debugging on in the gdm.conf (it's an option somewhere at the end -- I don't use gdm any more ...), then look at the syslog file for the results. To start a window manager behind gdm, I went to the .gnome directory and edited the file wm-default (or something like this, sorry, can't remember the right name, but you should look after something like wm or windowmanager): instead of gnome-wm I wrote icewm-gnome (put in your preferred wm). Hope that helps, joachim PS: I once posted a bug report about gdm not starting a wm, you may look at the bug database at www.debian.org.
